Israeli leaders and Holocaust survivors are gathering in Jerusalem to mark the country’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day.
The Holocaust is considered a central event in modern Jewish history and key to Israel’s society.
Fewer than 200,000 elderly survivors remain in Israel.
Six survivors were lighting symbolic torches at the ceremony. The Israeli flag flies at half staff, poems are read and the Jewish prayer for the dead is recited. – Text by Reuters and photos by Agencies.
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Kayani
Apr 20, 2012 11:02am
Holocaust is a false story created by jews. I think Pakistani people don't need this false awareness of false history.
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Shairyar Baig
Apr 20, 2012 02:19pm
agreed
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Vicky
Apr 20, 2012 03:23pm
Shocked to see that the first pic is of a jew who converted to Islam and who hid her jewness from her children... disguted at the undertones of the message!
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Jony
Apr 20, 2012 05:17pm
Your thinking is as stupid as what you want to convey. I wish you and your likes suffer the same before they understand fully what it really meant.
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Gabo
Apr 20, 2012 10:31pm
Kayani: My great-grandpa saw it with his own eyes. He was not jewish, but he was a political prisoner. He witnessed exactly what jewish survivors tell. And he said that there are lots of stories that were and will always be untold because no one would believe them, save the people who were there. And he was there.
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Babur Irfani
Apr 21, 2012 08:51am
Humans just like us, shop keeepers, teachers, tailors, jewellers,accountants, people just like us, humans, adults, children, babies. People who were raising their families, sending children to schools- had dreams, aspirations, achievements were taken from their homes and first put into slave camps, worked to the bones and then burnt. Not one, not two but millions, whole families obliterated.
They were not burnt just because it was easier to way to get rid of them but many as part of gross experiments to see how to kill them but also to use their ashes to make soaps for germans to wash themselves or their clothes.
Put aside the political reasons that happened afterwards, let us not disrespect the dead, innocent dead.
Humans, whole families were killed in millions for no reason but their religious conviction.
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Vicky
Apr 21, 2012 11:42am
Your ignorance disgusts everyone
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